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Old July 7th, 2005, 02:26 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Dual-Monitor Performance

I recently switched over from running one card for each monitor to running both screens on my new 6600GT PCI-E card. How much will this degrade the performance in 3D games? I've noticed for example BF2 should be running better than it is on my system. Should I use a special gaming profile that disables the secondary monitor? Is anyone else familiar with this issue?
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Old July 7th, 2005, 02:30 PM     #2 (permalink)
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BF2 doesn't run as good as it should on anybodys comp.

It will only degrade proformance if you use a higher resolution then what you otherwise would.
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i believe it does cause some preformance decrease as you are inputting to two devices than just one, i use Ultramon 2.6 to set up different backgrounds and have a hot key to disable the second monitor when im about to game
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Got Ultramon as well...yeah found that disable option now...gonna try that.
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